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-adapted agriculture, and improving fire management, would generate approximately US$339.3 billion in additional wealth. From a public …
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This paper quantifies the impact of climate change on agriculture in East Asian and South Asian countries using a CGE …
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sectors, agriculture plays a specific role in economic development because of its significant share in total employment and … value added in agriculture. The special attention is devoted to the position of the agricultural sector that may positive … development and point that agriculture still dominates in terms of employment. Moreover, a significant reduction of agriculture …
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Developing countries employ a very large share of their workforce in agriculture, a sector in which their labor … productivity is particularly low. We take a macroeconomic approach to analyze the role of agriculture in development. We construct … dramatically relative to labor prices; concurrently, capital and intermediate input use in agriculture increases by a factor of 300 …
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Most poor people in developing countries still live in rural areas and are primarily engaged in low productivity farming activities. Thus pathways out of poverty are likely to be strongly connected to productivity increases in the rural economy, whether they are realised in farming, rural...
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Past research has found that pressures to share income with family members and relatives can incentivize individuals to hide income, possibly distorting labor allocation and leading to inefficiencies. Due to the difficulty of observing hidden income, the majority of this research has used...
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To mitigate the farmer poverty and income inequality, many developing countries have introduced subsidy schemes to improve the incomes of farmers. Two commonly observed schemes are the input-based subsidies, which aim to reduce the input purchasing costs of farmers, and the output-based...
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household model theory. Using survey data collected from a representative sample of 450 savanna farm households of the …
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Latin American and Caribbean countries have historically been known for their rates of land inequality, highest in the world. However, these countries also exhibit a high degree of heterogeneity in their patterns of land concentration and average farm sizes. These cross-country differences play...
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